<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the note - I am just back from JAMSAT and was traveling and working when this was posted. I replied on the AMSAT-DL forum. <br><br>If members of the list aren't already on it, I highly recommend you join. Go to <a href="https://forum.amsat-dl.org/">https://forum.amsat-dl.org/</a> and sign up. We fully support Phase 4A! For both technical and humanitarian reasons, it is an outstanding achievement. Phase 4 Ground has already benefited from observing, measuring, and experimenting with QO-100. The success has informed our engineering and provided inspiration and motivation for doing the difficult DSP and coding theory work required to fully implement DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X. <br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-Michelle W5NYV<br><br><div dir="ltr">"Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis."<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:48 PM KC9SGV via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>While AMSAT-DL and QARS revel in the success of their two ham frequency transponders on Es'Hail 2, NA and SA still seek for an answer to the phase 4 quest.</div><div id="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058AppleMailSignature">The following has been mentioned on another forum dedicated to this issue...</div><div id="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058AppleMailSignature"><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageAuthor" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;min-height:48px"><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageAuthorContainer" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin-left:58px"><a href="https://forum.amsat-dl.org/cms/index.php?user/98-pe1chl/" class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058username gmail-m_-4163091312458037058userLink" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block;line-height:1.28" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font color="#000000">pe1chl</font></span></a></div><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058userTitle" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin-left:58px"><span class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058badge gmail-m_-4163091312458037058userTitleBadge" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;border-radius:2px;display:inline-block;line-height:1.28;padding:2px 6px;vertical-align:middle;max-width:154px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Intermediate</span></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageContent" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin-top:20px"><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageHeaderBox" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;display:flex"><ul class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageHeaderMetaData" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:none;display:flex"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><a href="https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/202-proposal-for-an-internet-remote-base-station-irb-in-the-footprint-of-qo-100/&postID=3338#post3338" class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058permalink gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messagePublicationTime" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Monday, 3:57 am</font></a></li></ul><ul class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageStatus" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:none;display:flex"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"></li></ul></div><ul class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageQuickOptions gmail-m_-4163091312458037058active" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:none;height:1.5em;opacity:1"></ul><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageBody" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin-top:20px;font-weight:bold"><div class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058messageText" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin-top:0px"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-4163091312458037058quoteBox gmail-m_-4163091312458037058collapsibleBbcode gmail-m_-4163091312458037058jsCollapsibleBbcode" cite="https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/202-proposal-for-an-internet-remote-base-station-irb-in-the-footprint-of-qo-100/&postID=3322#post3322" style="box-sizing:inherit;min-width:0px;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:10px;border:0px;quotes:none;border-radius:2px;clear:both;font-style:italic;overflow:hidden"><div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